were officials of the
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars ...
in
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
Japan. This office was created on July 3, 1859, when five ''
fudai''
daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...
were appointed.
[Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868,'' p. 324.] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor."
This ''
bakufu
, officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...
'' title identifies an official responsible for administration of the port of
Kanagawa
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...
(modern
Yokohama
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a popu ...
. The number of men holding the title concurrently has varied over time, from as few as five in 1859 to as many as nine at one time.
This office was often held concurrently with the office of ''
gaikoku-bugyō''.
List of Kanagawa ''bugyō''
:
*
Mizuno Tadanori, (1859).
*
Takemoto Masao
Takemoto (written: , , or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese playwright and puppet theatre director
*Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), American animator, television producer, and film ...
(1859–1860, 1861–1862).
*
Matsudaira Yasunao (1860–1863).
*
Abe Masato (1864–1866).
*
Hayakawa Hisatake[Beasely, p. 204.]
See also
*
Bugyō
was a title assigned to ''samurai'' officials in feudal Japan. ''Bugyō'' is often translated as commissioner, magistrate, or governor, and other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given official's tasks or jurisdi ...
Notes
References
*
Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868.''London:
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